Yesterday the first anniversary of the death of my grandmother gathered many of us for a celebration that ultimately led to the end of the mourning period. If there is anything in the ritual aspect of religions that I like, I would choose the funeral/mourning rituals. Wether you are a …
-This is winter, the winter that most of my french audience has come to dislike: In Paris, snow is rare, because of pollution and a specific geographical situation. In a way, it’s a bit like Portland, OR. where the climate is oceanic enough to block snowing. Add to this the …
Today, we’re approaching Sunday and to some on this earth, this day is referred to as the Day of the Lord. (And it does not mean the Couch Potatoes’ Day, please). This is why I shall refrain to talk about OOXML . To some others, Friday and Staurday are also …
Maybe you don’t know that logo:But after that post, you will know it: This is the official logo of the Native-Language Confederation of OpenOffice.org, and it has been designed by Nikash Singh who is designing several other icons and artwork for OpenOffice.org. (Surprizes will come in 2008.) I like that …
Happy New Year to all of you! How did New Year’s eve go? I hope you’re all fine, well rested and done with that hangover of yesterday… As for me it wasn’t the case and it comes as a surprize: I went to bed at four in the morning, partied …
Dear readers, I would first like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 2008 will be exciting, but most of you already know it. Today I would like to tell you about something I have discussed here and on several other places, such as mailing lists. …
– “Microsoft denied on Friday antitrust claims from Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser.” I love this sentence. – It’s been a long time I haven’t talked about OpenOffice.org. Some news: OpenOffice.org released the bug-fixing …
The Ecma is now advertizing the major changes they’re proposing through their answers and that does indeed sound good. I and others would even like to congratulate them if it weren’t for the complete opacity of the process and the fact that, despite what the Ecma and Microsoft claim, many of us, …
Sad farewell letter from Mr. Martin Bryan, now former convenor of the WG1 of the JTC-1 SC 34 (the ISO group working on OOXML and ODF). Alan Lord published it in extenso for fear that it would not stay long online, and since it’s rather short, I’ll publish as well …